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  Agent targets backlist digital rights in UK

  1508 readers From The Bookseller: E-books pioneer Arthur Klebanoff has made a targeted approach to UK agents over backlist digital rights, with agents calling his 50% royalty rate a “very positive” alternative to working with traditional publishers. Klebanoff, who founded New York-based digital publisher Rosetta Books in 2001, met UK-based agents last week and addressed a meeting of about

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  Kathryn Stockett Loses 39% On eBook Royalty: Author’s Guild

  1578 readersAuthors and publishers do not tend to agree on what is a fair royalty rate for an eBook. Publishers have set the standard at about 25%, but according to a panel at Digital Book World agents and authors think it should be 50%. The Author’s Guild has ...

• RosettaBooks and AARP to Publish Ebooks

  99 readersOriginal ebooks from AARP are slated for publication this year, thanks to the newly announced partnership with RosettaBooks, according to Publishers Weekly.UPDATE:“AARP has more reach than practically any non-profit in the United States, wonderful content and a clear focus. Rosetta is privileged to work with them,” RosettaBooks CEO Arthur Klebanoff told Digital Book World.Klebanoff went

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  RosettaBooks Is Running Science Fiction Writing Contest

  3030 readersDigital publisher RosettaBooks and sci-fi magazine Galaxy are running a science fiction writing contest called The Galaxy Project. The contest comes as Rosetta has just launched a new eBook collection of Galaxy stories from RosettaBooks. The winning writer will have their work published as an eBook as part of The Galaxy Project collection and will receive

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  Q&A: Brian Murray, CEO, HarperCollins

  2343 readersNigel Roby, The Bookseller in conversation with Brian Murray, CEO of HarperCollins at the Frankfurt Book Fair On E-book Royalty Rates: “Ten years ago we settled on an e-book royalty rate of 25% of net receipts and haven’t diverged from that. When we looked at our print royalties, we saw they averaged about 16-18%, so we knew

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  Ed Victor launches imprint, by Eoin Purcell

  867 readersAs if the signs were not clear enough that the world of trade publishing is changed forever, Ed Victor comes along and proves it pretty definitely. It’s not the scale, which is modest, more it is the fact that this kind of operation is but one of many sure to crop up over the next

• Christian Literary Agency Launches E-Publishing Company

  544 readers Publishers Lunch has the scoop (Christian Literary Agency Alive Communications Launches ePublishing Company, Bondfire): Leading literary agency for Christian and inspirational books Alive Communications has announced a separate “sister” epublishing enterprise, Bondfire Books. In the vein of Diversion Books (Scott Waxman), Bedford Square Books (Ed Victor),  Paperless Publishing (Objective Entertainment), and Rosetta Books (Arthur Klebanoff), Bondfire is

• RosettaBooks CEO: Authors Should Look For Publishers Who Play Ball With Amazon

  159 readers Authors should be more eager to do business with publishers who are friendly with Amazon, according to the CEO of RosettaBooks, an independent ebook publisher. “If you’re an author looking to make money, you should find a publisher who is playing ball,” said Arthur Klebanoff, founder and CEO of RosettaBooks, an ebook publisher founded with 100

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  Ex-Harlequin Exec Launches Bookoutre, New Digital-first Pub

  775 readersBy Alex Mutter Oliver Rhodes, former Marketing Controller for Harlequin UK, has launched Bookouture, a new digital publishing imprint with a focus on entertaining women’s fiction. “My aim with Bookouture is to focus on creating global author brands and followings – through high quality editing and particularly through smart, creative digital marketing,” said Rhodes in a press

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  Amazon announces 70% revenue share for Kindle mags and newspapers; publishing tool available

  1785 readersFrom the press release: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that magazine and newspaper publishers will soon be eligible to earn a larger share of revenue from each title they sell in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). For each magazine or newspaper sold, publishers will be able to earn 70 percent of the retail price, net